{"id":658801,"date":"2025-08-29T09:42:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T13:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=658801"},"modified":"2025-08-29T09:43:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T13:43:53","slug":"arsenal-predicted-lineup-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/08\/29\/arsenal-predicted-lineup-liverpool\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal Predicted Lineup vs Liverpool for August 31"},"content":{"rendered":"
On August 31 at Anfield, Arsenal face Liverpool in an early-season clash between last season\u2019s top two. A win here would be more of a statement of intent than a decisive moment in the title race. Here is our Arsenal predicted lineup.<\/div>\n

Arsenal Predicted Lineup vs Liverpool<\/h2>\n
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How Arsenal Have Lined Up Recently<\/h3>\n
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At home to Leeds, Mikel Arteta lined his team up in a 4-3-3 formation, with David Raya starting in goal, Jurri\u00ebn Timber and Riccardo Calafiori starting in the full-back positions. William Saliba and Gabriel Magalh\u00e3es started at centre back, while the trio of Martin Zubimendi, Declan Rice, and Martin \u00d8degaard started in midfield.<\/p>\n

Read More<\/strong>: Top Five Greatest Arsenal Goalkeepers of All Time<\/a><\/p>\n

Outwide, it was Bukayo Saka and Noni Madueke, with summer signing Viktor Gy\u00f6keres starting in attack, who scored his first two goals for the club in the 5-0 win on August 23. Despite the comfortable win, injuries to Saka and \u00d8degaard dampened the euphoria of the victory.<\/p>\n

Arsenal Injuries and Absentees to Consider<\/h3>\n
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During his pre-match press conference<\/a>, Arteta discussed the injury situation of Saka: \u201cBukayo is doing better, but he will be out for a few weeks. No surgery.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s not as bad as the previous one, very unfortunate. It was an action that required full power from him, had to change direction, and he felt something.\u201d<\/p>\n

Regarding \u00d8degaard, Arteta said: \u201cWe don’t know yet, he hasn’t trained yet. If he does it will be tomorrow.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, there is an injury there but if everything can go well and he can cope with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read More<\/strong>: Top Five Greatest Arsenal Fullbacks of All Time<\/a><\/p>\n

There was also an update on the availability of Kai Havertz: \u201cI think it will be weeks, but hopefully not months. It’s very sad. This is our profession and now we lose another player for many weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Arteta spoke positively about the chances of Ben White and Christian N\u00f8rgaard making the squad for August 31. Arsenal\u2019s new signing Eberechi Eze was praised by the Gunners boss: \u201cVery special energy, special aura around him and really willing. He’s gathered a lot of information on that pitch.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, very impressed with him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Arsenal Predicted Lineup vs Liverpool<\/h3>\n
GK: David Raya<\/div>\n
LB: Riccardo Calafiori<\/div>\n
CB: William Saliba<\/div>\n
CB: Gabriel Magalh\u00e3es<\/div>\n
RB: Jurri\u00ebn Timber<\/div>\n
CM: Martin Zubimendi<\/div>\n
CM: Declan Rice<\/div>\n
AM: Mikel Merino<\/div>\n
LW: Gabriel Martinelli<\/div>\n
ST: Viktor Gy\u00f6keres<\/div>\n
RW: Noni Madueke<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On August 31 at Anfield, Arsenal face Liverpool in an early-season clash between last season\u2019s top two. A win here would be more of a statement of intent than a decisive moment in the title race. Here is our Arsenal predicted lineup. Arsenal Predicted Lineup vs Liverpool How Arsenal Have Lined Up Recently At home […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4106,"featured_media":646955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,16,1831],"tags":[9689,5037,4372,31697],"class_list":["post-658801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-arsenal","category-liverpool","category-starting-line-up","tag-arsenal-predicted-lineup","tag-eberechi-eze","tag-mikel-arteta","tag-viktor-gyokeres"],"modified_by":"Ricky Carroll, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658801"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":658811,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658801\/revisions\/658811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}